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Empty Bowls Collection
Fish Tales Oral History Project
The Fish Tales oral history collection gathers the fishing stories of Opelika and Lee County. This is an active collecting area.
Henry J. Stern Collection
The Henry J. Stern Collection documents the history of Opelika and Lee County, Alabama, through subject files assembled by Henry Julius Stern (1931 to 2014), a Holocaust survivor, longtime executive of the Opelika Chamber of Commerce, and the man many residents called "Mr. Opelika." The collection consists of 29 subject folders of mixed media in three boxes, with particular depth on Pepperell Manufacturing Company and the Pepperell mill village.
Jack W. Jenkins Collection
Jean Woodham Collection
John Herbert Orr Collection
M.C. and E.D. Humphrie WWII Journal Collection
Opelika Business Portrait Project
The Opelika Business Portrait Project documents the businesses of downtown Opelika, Alabama, through oral histories, photographs, business records, and ephemera gathered in partnership with the businesses themselves. The collection is organized with a series for each participating business and remains open and actively growing.
Opelika Newspapers Collection
The Opelika Newspapers Collection contains 37,776 digitized issues of fourteen newspapers published in Opelika, Alabama, from October 1872 through December 2018.
Opelika Public Library Vertical File Collection
Originally created and formed in the Lewis Cooper Jr. Library, The Opelika Public Library Vertical File Collection was built by librarians and archivists who took materials and clippings from newspapers and magazines to entire publications, journals, and maps to create files about Opelika and persons and subjects of interest.